Paraneoplastic extra limbic encephalitis associated with thymoma.

Abstract:

:We report the case of a 55-year-old woman with thymoma diagnosed after finding of extra limbic encephalitis. She presented neurologic symptoms as seizure and aphasia; magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain showed multiple lesions located in insular, parietal and temporal lobes (in cortical and sub-cortical area). Brain biopsies confirmed the diagnosis of encephalitis and CT-scan of the thorax showed an anterior mediastinal mass suspected for thymoma. The patient was submitted to thymectomy through a median sternotomy and we assisted to secondary reduction of cerebral lesions and total remission of symptoms.

authors

Rizzardi G,Campione A,Scanagatta P,Terzi A

doi

10.1510/icvts.2009.211276

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2009-10-01 00:00:00

pages

755-6

issue

4

eissn

1569-9293

issn

1569-9285

pii

icvts.2009.211276

journal_volume

9

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